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Scaling of Structural Strength

This book is concerned with a leading-edge topic of great interest and importance, exemplifying the relationship between experimental research, material modeling, structural… Read more

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This book is concerned with a leading-edge topic of great interest and importance, exemplifying the relationship between experimental research, material modeling, structural analysis and design. It focuses on the effect of structure size on structural strength and failure behaviour. Bazant's theory has recently found wide application to all quasibrittle materials, including rocks, ice, modern fiber composites and tough ceramics The topic of energetic scaling, considered controversial until recently, is finally getting the attention it deserves, mainly as a result of Bazant's pioneering work. In this new edition an extra section and new appendices covering the most recent developments in the subject are included.

Readership

Postgraduate students and practitioners involved in mechanics and the study of strength in structures

Table of contents

1. Introduction. 2. Asymptotic Analysis of Size Effect. 3. Randomness and Disorder. 4. Energetic Scaling for Sea Ice and Concrete Structures. 5. Energetic Scaling of Compression Fracture and Further Applications to Concrete, Rocks and Composites. 6. Scaling via J-Integral, with Application to Kink Bands in Fiber Composites. 7. Time Dependence, Repeated Loads and Energy Absorption Capacity. 8. Computational Approaches to Quasibrittle Fracture and its Scaling. 9. New Asymptotic Scaling Analysis of Cohesive Crack Model; Scaling of Dislocation-based Strain-gradient Plasticity; Scaling of Original Phenomenological Theory of Strain-gradient Plasticity; Appendices1. Size Effect Derivation by a New Method for Asymptotic Matching; A2. Size Effect of Finite-angle Notches; A3.Size Effect on Flexural Strength of Fiber-composite; A4. Size Effect in Fracture of Closed-cell Polymeric Form; A5. Variation of Cohesive Softening LawTaill in Boundary Layer of Concrete; A6.Fracture Energy on One-size Specimens with Different Notch Lengths; Notched-unnothched Size Effect; and 6 other appendices

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About the author

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Zdenek P. Bazant

Zdenìk P. Bažant has held the WP Murphy Chair of Civil Engineering and Materials Science at Northwestern University, USA, since 1990 and has been McCormick School Professor since 2002. He also served as Director of the Center for Concrete and Geomaterials from 1981 to 1987. He has been inducted to both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of Engineering and has received five honorary doctorates.
Affiliations and expertise
WP Murphy Chair at Northwestern University, USA